Suspensions

Schools must effectively involve students in learning to ensure educational success. Stand-downs, suspensions, and exclusions help provide indications of where engagement in productive learning may be absent and behavioural issues may be present. Stand-downs, suspensions and exclusions are not measures of student behaviour but measures of a school's reaction to behaviour. What one school may choose to suspend for another may not.

Age standardised rate is ‘observed’/’expected’*’national rate per 1,000’. Care should be taken when examining age-standardised rates, especially in the cases when small numbers are involved. For more information on age-standardisation see the Technical Notes/Definitions tab above.

International fee paying students, adult students (age 19+), and private students are excluded.

‘x’ = less than 5 students in the denominator for this category, or if left unmasked the data may lead to deducing other masked values.

Ethnicity is prioritised. MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African) students are included with ‘Other’.

Table 2: Comparison suspension rates data (2016)

Comparison group

Gender

Observed suspensions

Expected suspensions

Age-standardised suspension rate per 1,000 students

Halsey Drive School

Female

0

0.2

0.0

Halsey Drive School

Male

0

0.2

0.0

Halsey Drive School

Total

0

0.4

0.0

Auckland Region

Female

180

433.1

1.5

Auckland Region

Male

528

455.9

4.2

Auckland Region

Total

708

889.1

2.9

Contributing

Female

12

89.8

0.5

Contributing

Male

161

95.3

6.1

Contributing

Total

173

185.1

3.4

State: Not Integrated

Female

634

1,130.4

2.0

State: Not Integrated

Male

1906

1,195.1

5.8

State: Not Integrated

Total

2540

2,325.5

4.0

Decile 07

Female

58

161.0

1.3

Decile 07

Male

192

174.3

4.0

Decile 07

Total

250

335.3

2.7

New Zealand

Female

665

1,319.7

1.8

New Zealand

Male

2027

1,372.3

5.4

New Zealand

Total

2692

2,692.0

3.6

Notes:

Age standardised rate is ‘observed’/’expected’*’national rate per 1,000’. Care should be taken when examining age-standardised rates, especially in the cases when small numbers are involved. For more information on age-standardisation see the Technical Notes/Definitions tab above.

International fee paying students, adult students (age 19+), and private students are excluded.

‘x’ = less than 5 students in the denominator for this category, or if left unmasked the data may lead to deducing other masked values.

Comparison groups are selected based on profile of school at time of data collection.